Leadership Foundations Part 1: LF Overview Leadership Foundations Part 2: Why Are Leaders Needed? _______ In the last two posts of the Leadership Foundations series, we covered the definition of leadership and some leadership principles, and answered the question – Why are leaders needed? In this post, we’ll explore a question that many aspiring leaders […]
One of the prevailing messages many of us are taught growing up is that emotions are a bad thing. For those of us who grew up in the West, emotions are often seen as illogical or considered a weakness. However, the Bible is filled with emotional language because God himself feels emotions! He can be […]
In the first post, Jenn described how suffering leads us to surrender. In the second post, I wrote about how Jesus wants us to surrender the self, and to surrender the self all the way to the point of death, so that he can fill us with His resurrection life and power. In this final […]
Jenn’s post shared about our initial experience of discovering Jenn had brain cancer and some of the lessons about suffering and surrender that came through that. For this post, I’ll share some of my experiences from this past season and also some of the things we’ve received from God out of being brought to a […]
One of the main reasons why we started this blog to pass on lessons to missions leaders was that this past season of cancer made us realize that our time is limited. In this post, I want to share about my experience of finding out I had cancer, the ways that God met us in […]
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Cancer, more than anything, transformed our lives into “before” and “after.” At the end of 2021, while going through cancer treatment, I stumbled across this poem by Lucille Clifton. Its message reflected the bittersweet experiences Steven and I were facing as God used suffering to refine and transform us into who He wanted us to […]
For our second post in the Leadership Foundations series, we felt the need to address this question – why are leaders needed? From our Overview post, we defined leadership as this: a leader is a man or woman who receives vision from God to influence the people of God towards the purposes of God. A […]
From time to time, we’ll update some about our personal lives and ministry here in Thailand. This past weekend, we had the opportunity to travel through the mountains to meet up with one of our closest Thai partners, Talia (name changed for security purposes). We’re planning to post about our past season of cancer treatment, […]
Hello from Amazing Thailand! After 1.5 years in the States for Jenn’s medical treatment, we’ve finally been able to return to the country and people that we love. There’s been many lessons learned from God through costly and painful experiences in the last season that we hope to write about soon. For now, we’ll try […]
All Leadership Foundations Posts:LF – Why are Leaders Needed?LF – How Do I Discern if I’m a Leader?LF – How Do I Develop as a Leader?LF – How to Form a Personal Development Plan_______ The words ‘leader’ or ‘leadership’ have a lot of broad connotations for different people. The term leader is used in sports, […]